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NORSTRILIAN NEWS August 1973 Page 1 H R W 0 I I 1 H A H I L J Ij H TWENTY. CENTS. Registered at the GPO, Melbourne as a Periodical, Cat B. August 1973 - a specially-delayed issue to bring you Torcon 2news. Eull'iT Tprcon details follow in Sept. issue. An Australia in '75 publications' produced 'by Robin Johnson, GPO Box 4039, Melbourne. That's the score in the ballotting of Torcon members who had bought memberships in the 1975 Worldcon. John Hillard, Chairman of Torcon 2, telephoned me early Monday,"Australian time,' to'give me these figures and' other news of the success" of the largest Worldcon so far held. As at noon Sunday, 2400 people had passed the registration tables at Toronto's Royal York Hotel? everyone was-having a ball, John said, and the hotel had been marvellous. He was calling from Ron Graham's room, and Mervyn Binns had gained honourable mention in the Costume Show, in John Breden's magnificent SET costume, from Roger Zelazny's Creatures □f Light and Darkness. It must have been a rare calm minute for John, just be­ fore the Awards reception and Banquet. He gave me a list of Hugo winners,, due to be publicly announced at the Banquet, and presented by Lester Del Rey. Here followeth the Hugo winners for 1973: NOVEL : Isaac Asimov, for THE GODS THEMSELVES NOVELLA : Ursula K. LeGuin, for THE WORD FOR WORLD IS FOREST NOVELETTE : Poul Anderson, for GOAT SONG SHORT STORY: tie, R.A.Lafferty, for EUREMA’S DAM, and Frederik Pohl and C.M.Kornbluth, for THE MEETING PROFESSIONAL ARTIST : Frank Kelly Freas PROFESSIONALEDITOR : Ben Bova AMATEUR MAGAZINE : ENERGUMEN FAN WRITER : Terry Carr FAN ARTIST : Tim Kirk DRAMATIC PRESENTATION: SLAUGHTERHOUSE FIVE. Here followeth obligatory comment about Rotsler. Maybe he'll win a pro writer's Hugo before he gets his richly-desrved fan artist one. At the time of the phone call, the second and third placegetters were not available. This was probably due to the complicated, and in my opinion unnecessary method of recounting all votes for the winner according to their second choice to obtain second, and sc on. How this farce gained the name of the Australian ballotting procedure is be­ yond me. Why don't we merely award second and third places - if that in fact be thought necessary - to those candidates that have the next largest numbers of first place votes? Any objections? By this morning's mail I received an airmail copy of the Torcon Program Book. A slick, 96-pagc quarto production, with colour Derek Carter wraparound cover, it has 10 pages of advertising of various types for Australia in '75, ads for both Columbus and New Orleans for Worldcon bids for '76, and many other pro and fan ads, as well as the expected write-ups on Guest-of-Honour Robert Bloch, Fan GoH Bill Rotsler, and Toastmaster Lester Del Rey. There's an ad from Chuck Cra­ yne for his Los Angeles bid, that makes his reasons a little clearer, a listing of the program itself - a more up-to-date listing in the form of a pocket pro­ gram was sponsored by the A75 bid — articles by Anne McCaffrey on SFWA, Harlan Ellison on Getting Stiffed - Ellisonese for cheated by publishers - by Frederik Pohl on Living in the World of Science Fiction, HALF A FAN IS HUMAN, by Harry Warner Jr. etc. etc. In fact a good issue of an excellent fanzine. NORSTRILIAN NEWS August 1973 Page 1 H r W " n T ! n n 0 This Yeai?'s Australian National Convention was held in H \ ~ I l| J Adelaide University’s Lincoln College. In some ways it n J I U I J h L managed to transfer indoors the remembered qemtttlichkeit of its earlier namesake; meals being in common, or commune, certainly helped here, and- that reason for holding -a • banquet wa.s .thus negated. This implies no criticism of the banquet, which was tasty and.adequate, raretios in those times of etc. etc. The meeting room was upstairs, and was excellent, having carpeted floors for some; improvement in acoustics, upholstered seats, even couches. All-night films large­ ly knocked roomparties on the head, but the general sociable atmosphere, combined with light programming, made up for this. Because most people were living-in, and were seeing each other around the building, like in the communal showers, the oc­ casional mundane prescence was no problem. Until, that is, the movies. Residents, at the College had been invited to the film shows, but after the first night when some artwork vanished, relations were more strained. Enough: The program - well, as usual I missed the opening due to haed.to work in Melbourne, in the morning, but thanks to Reg Ansett's personal helicopter and pub­ lic 727 I managed to arrive in time to hear a talk by Dr. Peter Delian, a psych­ ology lecturer at the University on 'SF and the Occult*. He appeared to me to be an ANALOG type, regressive to the extent of desiring ample footnotes to the sto­ ries he liked, so he could tell whether the science described was bagus or no. To be mor.e fair, his main theme was that opan-mindednoss should be applied to the investigation of the occult, or parascience if we prefer. Next, the program book, printed the words of some SF lyrics from pop music by such as the Moody Blues, Genesis, and Van de Graaf Generator, which helped a lot when listening to the music, with brief comments from Michael Clark, Andrew Bear, English lecturer at Flinders Uni. then gave a fascinating talk on censorship. He collects anti—cen­ sorship pamphlets the way some people collect porno. He warned than the antis are becoming very much more sophisticated, and they could no longer be dismissed lightly as wowsers. He doomsaid the impending visit of Mary Whitehouse, British battler for ’community standards', sponsored by theLeague of Light, or some such; chunderous title. A masquerade over which a decent darkness should be drawn followed? Allen Evans’ kittenish kzinti and a delightful Dalek driven by most Adelaiders in turn did not provide enough to rescue the fixture. Why is it most Australians shy off at this type of thing? There's safety in numbers, I suppose. Pity Bohn Breden's energies were spent in a last-minute effort to finish Merv Binns' costume prior to the Worldcon. On the Saturday, a business seession authorised the A75 Committee to evolve into a convention Committee; from a bidding one, if Torcon did the same. Various people signed rather frightening-looking forms to enable the Committee to form a company limited by guarantee should that prove necessary. Then a discussion started on the subject of the Ditmar Awards, our equivalent of the Hugo Awards. This was ad­ journed as a slot had opened up in tho afternoon program due to ths sickness of Rod Nicholls, and his inability to present his talk on Mike Moorcock. Doff Har­ ris, an often sane individual, led a discussion on the TV programme, DR. WHO, which I missod? maybe tho Dalek get another airing then. Chairmen Paul Stokes and Alan Sandercock ran the auction, which overran and was continued the following day amid greater drama. The few juicy items were near the end, possibly a tactical mistake. I must have switched off ater the A75 section of the business session, for the Melbourne bid for tho 13th National Con next year did not involve me, and there was no opposition. The Peoples' Committee for a Revolutionary Con, or whatever their title now is, made their bid in the persons of David Grigg and Ken Ford. Bruce Gillespie, on the point of leaving for six months, was not present, as he had three issues of SF Commentary to produce first. Maybe it was a good move, as the idea of Bruce ae head of a such-named Committee is a trifle croggling. ' ' Page 2, NORSTRILIAN NEWS August 1973 ADVENTION Contd. Ths audiovisual spectacular started with Paul Stokes' announcement of the untimely death of Jeff Harris, closely followed by his resurrection in the form of a vampire with a split personality, given to scientific explanation of each move he made. We segued into a slide-show of headache-creating obscurity, interrupted by the shrieks of assorted victims. A not-bad idea, defeated by poor optics. Sohn Breden had fixed up the problem by ।h- .me he came to give his celebrated. R-rated slideshow from the comix, as the spelling seems to be these days. The Ditmar Awards banquet was held by candlelight downstairs, and an alternative banquet of baked-bean sandwiches was adressed by Irene Pagram on slugs, I'm told. The actual awards and the Guest-of-Honour speech by John Foysterwero given back upstairs. Bohn managed to castigate the committee soundly for failing to produce any failures with which to castigate them? described the trauma af findind subjects of common interest to an audience whose main interests range from Carl Barks to Karl Marxj and went to to talk on the importance of being unimportant. THE DITMARS? Nominations for Best Australian Fiction were; THE HARD WAY UP, A Bertram Chandler LET IT RING, Bohn Ossian GONE FISHING, David Rome BUDNIP, Back Wodhams. • For Best International Fictions THE GODS THEMSELVES, Isaac Asimov THE GORGON FESTIVAL, Bohn Boyd THE IQ MERCHANT, Bohn Boyd DYING INSIDE, Robert silverberg Best Dramatic Presentation nominations were? AUSSIEFAN, Bohn Litchen and Paul Stevens' fan movio for the n75 Committee A CLOCKWORK ORANGE, SLAUGHTERHOUSE FIVE TALES FROM THE CRYPT' Best Australian Fanzine nominations were; CHAO, ^ohn Alderson GEGENSCHEIN, Eric Lindsay RATAPLAN, Leigh Edmonds SF COMMENTARY, Bruce Gillespie.
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